Saw Buddy Guy live in concert may moons ago.
Quite some gig. Proper guitar porn overload.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ewrSgDf50I
Fuck maiden, Hail Priest…
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“Fuck Maiden” is an offence worth banning but that particular song might just be my favourite of all time, so all is forgiven. Can’t bring myself to try and learn it, the first solo is… Perfection, I guess.
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Everything about that song is perfection.
except the drums , i’ve a inkling they might have been programmed.
but might have been more due to their problems with their existing drummer at that time ,Les Binks was a limited drummer , even if he had composed the song initially.
you got this eddie… 
We jump no more, so, so sad 
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RIP Johnny Nash, I love this song
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Motherjane - Mindstreet
Can’t go with the fuck Maiden but boy oh boy Beyond the Realms of Death is an all time guitar masterpiece. Best Priest song along with The Sentinel and Painkiller.
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Never was a huge Van Halen fan to be honest but as a hopeless guitarist I’ve watched him quite closely, oddly more than ever recently, I have nothing but massive respect for what and how he played. Quite dumbstruck how easy he made things look.
Huge loss. He was a foundation of modern guitar playing.
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Further to my post a little while ago on here I’ve been progressing slowly with some guitar lessons to basically fill gaps and get better. In that search I stumbled onto this little series of videos (there’s 5 in total) that were a real eye opener to me.
I’ve always had an appreciation of BB King’s playing but never really paid much attention to it given that technically it’s not that advanced. I then watched this and was immediately in awe of not only his musical knowledge. I was guilty of assuming these old guys basically played whatever sounded good with no real appreciation of the theory behind it. I was wrong on that front but then his phrasing and the dynamics of his playing gave me a pretty rude awakening.
That’s more albums to buy I think
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Many people mistake lightning fast acrobatic shredding of scales for superior musicianship imho, B.B. was a master
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They do, I agree, but for me nothing he did never really pushed anything. Basically he played lots of pretty simple licks based around pentatonic scales. But when you watch those video’s you get to see his understanding of those scales combined with the chord structure of a song and how he basically resolves those licks to the chord structure was an eye opener to me. Then throw that phrasing into the mix, his subtle string bends, or the larger ones, the varying attack etc. was a real eye opener.
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That’s what music’s about though, innit? A scale on its own means nothing
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It is, absolutely, but doing what BB king does is extremely difficult. I’m a shit lead guitarist but I could play what BB King does, but it would sound awful in comparison. Same notes but with garbage phrasing. It was my realisation of the genius of this that got me. Quite motivating actually.
David Gilmour is another one that has had a similar effect on me.
Conversely I see Eddie Van Halen at the other extreme and why I dont like his music as much as I do with say David Gilmour’s / Pink Floyd.
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